1-kings 6:18

Translations

King James Version (KJV)

And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

American King James Version (AKJV)

And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

American Standard Version (ASV)

And there was cedar on the house within, carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

Basic English Translation (BBE)

(All the inside of the house was cedar-wood, ornamented with designs of buds and flowers; no stonework was to be seen inside.)

Webster's Revision

And the cedar of the house within was carved with knobs and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

World English Bible

There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

English Revised Version (ERV)

And there was cedar on the house within, carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

Definitions for 1-kings 6:18

Flowers - Menstrual flow, blood.

Knops - Decorative ornaments.

Barnes's 1-kings 6:18 Bible Commentary

Knops and open flowers - Rather, "gourds and opening flower-buds." Imitations of the vegetable world are among the earliest of architectural ornaments. They abound in the architecture of Egypt and Persia. In that of Assyria they occur more sparingly.

Wesley's 1-kings 6:18 Bible Commentary

6:18 Cedar - Cedar is here named, not to exclude all other wood, but stone only; as the following words shew.